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Trump tops Biden by 2 points in new Florida poll
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4620441-trump-tops-biden-by-just-two-points-in-new-florida-poll/
Actually, I believe that he was accused a couple of times witnessing it in the showers but turned the other way.
Millions Cancel Subscriptions to National Enquirer After Learning Its Stories May Not be True
NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—In a development that has rocked the news industry, The National Enquirer has lost millions of subscribers amid revelations that some of its stories might not be factual.
After Donald J. Trump’s hush money trial exposed the Enquirer’s inner workings, the newspaper’s reputation for unimpeachable journalism suffered a severe blow, media insiders say. Harland Dorrinson, an Enquirer subscriber for over thirty years, said discovering that the weekly periodical was not a dependable information source was “a gut punch.” “In a complex and confusing world, I always felt that there was one news outlet that could make sense of it all,” he said. “That’s been stolen from me.”
If the Enquirer distorted its coverage to support Trump’s election in 2016, Dorrinson wondered, “Does that mean Hillary Clinton wasn’t really dying? Or that she didn’t delete emails from her multiple lesbian lovers? Or that Bill Clinton didn’t have a sex romp in a pickup truck that was caught on video? Now I don’t know what to believe.”
The longtime subscriber said that the Enquirer’s sudden loss of credibility would force him to seek reliable reporting elsewhere, adding, “I guess I’ll give Fox a shot.”
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/millions-cancel-subscriptions-to?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2337656&post_id=143890114&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1xp0zk&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
So now we're having trump demanding our congress to help him scam America. I guess it's the next conspiracy theater Comer, Jorden, MTG, and Faux News can rant and rave about. The Biden flop not working out so well, people are changing the channel. A stinky pinky scheme with control of our republican congress, what could go wrong?
One would expect him to pull out all the stops to delay the inevitable plunge as he grifts his billions, which isn't to far away. The republican congress helping this stench do it doesn't really surprise me either.
Trump Media jumps more than 9% after CEO asks House GOP to probe possible DJT stock ‘manipulation’
Published Wed, Apr 24 202411:05 AM EDTUpdated 5 Hours Ago
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/24/djt-trump-media-ceo-asks-house-gop-to-launch-stock-manipulation-probe.html
“As Democracy Docket founder and election lawyer Marc. E. Elias noted in response to the interview, 'Poll observers are NEVER permitted to touch ballots.'” https://t.co/Yf8YgMw9rm
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) April 25, 2024
Just so we’re clear, MAGA idiot Lara trump suggesting that the RNC will have people installed to physically handle the ballots is in fact election interference and a felony. She should’ve been sent to jail for stealing money from a fake dog rescue charity.
— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) April 24, 2024
Some of the smartest people I know don't have a great deal of formal education. In fact, many of them have better bullshit detectors than your average MBA.
As for being a bad state to raise a child, generational poverty is a terrible thing made even worse by the exodus of the few industries that existed in Appalachia. I imagine most who live in Kentucky feel trapped.
Years back I worked in NYC with a woman who grew up in West Virginia. One day I showed her a magazine ad that was trying to entice businesses to open up shop in WV. There were pictures of nature that were just gorgeous. I showed the ad to the WV native and she said "some parts of the state are really pretty, but believe me you do not want to live there."
Oxymoron rich phrase.....Among those indicted RNC’s senior counsel for election integrity.😏
To be fair to Gym, I don't think anyone claimed that Jordan witnessed the molestation. Several of the college wrestlers say they went to Jordan to report the molestation and Jordan did nothing.
Just as bad, I suppose, but still...the facts are important.
Ha! RNC’s senior counsel for election integrity
So the RNC’s senior counsel for election integrity, Christina Bobb, is among those indicted in Arizona for allegedly conspiring to cheat the state’s voters. You cannot make this stuff up.
— Chris Bury (@ChrisBuryNews) April 25, 2024
Trumpanzees have their election fraud conspiracy theories but the law has Trump's co-conspirators by the gonads. Three words the GOP would rather not see together in the same sentence? Fake electors scheme.
Too bad, they own it along with the pathetic 2000 Mules, Cyber Ninjas nothing-burger in AZ and Fox News' 787.5 million settlement....capitulation for lying their asses off....with Dominion Voting Systems over defamation charges.
Giuliani and Meadows Among Trump Pals Charged in Arizona’s 2020 Election Probe
PILING ON
Seven attorneys and aides were indicted in total Wednesday.
Josh Fiallo Breaking News Reporter
Updated Apr. 24, 2024 8:08PM EDT Published Apr. 24, 2024 7:55PM EDT
https://www.thedailybeast.com/giuliani-and-meadows-among-trump-pals-charged-in-arizona-2020-election-probe?ref=home?ref=home
Reuters/Eduardo Munoz
An Arizona grand jury indicted seven attorneys and aides linked to Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign on Wednesday, including his onetime Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, and his former lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.
The felony charges are tied to their alleged efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in the state and have Trump be named winner—despite him losing the state by 10,000 votes.
The state’s attorney general announced the indictments, which were obtained by The Daily Beast. Others charged alongside Meadows and Giuliani were Jenna Ellis, a Trump campaign lawyer; John Eastman, a Trump lawyer who presented him with the now-infamous “coup memo,” which included a roadmap to implementing the fake elector plot and overturning the election; Christina Bobb, a Trump lawyer; Boris Epshteyn, a top campaign adviser; and Mike Roman, a campaign aide.
Also charged was Kelli Ward, the Arizona GOP leader during the 2020 election and the immediate aftermath, who regularly parroted election lies.
Trump was not charged, but the indictment lists him as an unindicted co-conspirator.
“We conducted a thorough and professional investigation over the past 13 months into the fake electors scheme in our state,” Attorney General Kris Mayes said in a video statement. “I understand for some of you today didn't come fast enough. And I know I’ll be criticized by others for conducting this investigation at all. But as I’ve stated before, and will say here again today, I will not allow American democracy to be undermined.”
News of the indictment surfaced just hours after Giuliani, Ellis, Meadows, and Trump himself were named unindicted co-conspirators in a Michigan case concerning that state’s fake elector scheme.
Trump’s allies reportedly came up with a seven-state scheme to subvert the Electoral College and turn the election in his favor, in which Arizona—and its 11 electoral votes—was among the most important battleground states.
Michigan, Georgia, Nevada, and now Arizona have all charged at least some of those who participated in their respective fake elector schemes, while an investigation is ongoing in Wisconsin. Prosecutors in New Mexico and Pennsylvania announced they would not bring charges on the matter.
Yikes! More indictments
BREAKING: Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, Jenna Ellis, Christina Bobb and Boris Epshytn have all been indicted in Arizona. https://t.co/dOqD5UzNaY
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 24, 2024
Michael Ian Black: Trump Diapers Would Be a MAGA Phenomenon
YUGER THAN TRUMP STEAKS
My business advice to the ex-president, who’s having a tough time sitting all day in the courtroom.
Michael Ian Black
Published Apr. 24, 2024 4:30AM EDT
https://www.thedailybeast.com/michael-ian-black-trump-diapers-would-be-a-maga-phenomenon
Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast
Dear (former, best ever) President Donald Trump,
We’ve had our disagreements over the years, some of them pretty bigly. But if there’s one important lesson you’ve taught me, it’s that we should never let personal grievances, ethics, or the law stand in the way of a good business opportunity.
As your legal fees continue to mount by the millions, your Truth Social stock tanks, and the bond for your $454 million judgment for sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll is rejected (so unfair!)—now’s the perfect time to explore a new income stream that can capitalize on the attention you’re getting over rumors you’ve been audibly farting in the courtroom during your first-ever criminal trial.
Now, I know these are unconfirmed, uncorroborated rumblings, but even if it’s not true, own it! As your former spokesperson, John Barron, knew, all PR is good PR. And, believe me, when you hear this pitch, I think you might shit yourself—pun VERY much intended.
Here it is: “Diaper Don’s Soundproof Adult Undergarments.”
Think about it. You’re an adult (chronologically, if not temperamentally), you wear diapers, and you fart a lot. In a quiet courtroom, that kind of constant, audible flatulence could turn a sympathetic juror into a Soros-controlled globalist puppet.
We can stop that from happening.
And can’t you just picture the commercial?
An American flag waving in the breeze, the first stirring notes of the Star Spangled Banner featuring the Jan. 6 Prison Choir (such a great song, sir, brought tears to my eyes). The scene is majestic, awe-inspiring. Then, out of nowhere, somebody rips one, almost ruining the magnificent, some say better-than-the-original song.
Enter YOU, possibly arriving via escalator, looking like a modern-day Winston Churchill, but much more muscular and virile and without the phony-baloney accent.
It’d go something like this:
“I’m President Donald Trump. Whether I’m on the golf course or in a courtroom run by a totally conflicted and disgraced judge, there are times where I just let it rip.
“Sometimes I even shart a little.
“I need an adult diaper that’s as tough and patriotic as me. That’s why I’ve created Diaper Don’s Soundproof Adult Undergarments.
“They not only absorb the weird stuff down there, they’re also equipped with my patented fart-baffling diaper technology. No other brand can match this very strong, very powerful system for neutralizing the sounds of even the juiciest, wettest fluffer doodles.
“The secret: gold!”
(Note: the secret isn’t really gold. It’s styrofoam. But we’ll paint it gold. Those idiots won’t know the difference.)
“Using the same state-of-the-art technology that made Trump Sneakers the best-selling shoe in history, my Trump Diapers will get you through a rough day in court, or the boardroom, or the back nine at Bedminster, where I am club champion 10 years running.
“Diaper Don’s Soundproof Adult Undergarments: for when you’re shitting yourself because you might go to jail after falsifying business records, obstructing justice, stealing classified documents, and attempting to overturn a presidential election.”
So…
What do you think?
Yes, the tagline is a little ungainly, but it’s hard to fit almost a hundred felony charges into a pithy catchphrase. Did you have to commit so many crimes?!? (Allegedly, lol.)
Also, I admit that adult diapers aren’t the world’s most glamorous product, but that’s where the Trump magic comes in. Who else but you could turn an embarrassing medical condition into a goldmine? Sleepy Joe Biden? Please—that guy’s too busy governing, like a nerd.
If anybody can turn this idea into a hit, it’s you. After all, your doubters probably thought nobody would pay thousands upon thousands to attend a fraudulent university, either.
Maybe you worry selling adult diapers will “damage your reputation.” The good news—not possible! Your reputation is already as soiled as the inferior adult diaper you’re currently wearing.
Look, you’ve already demonstrated time and again that there are no limits to how far you will debase yourself for a buck, so why not sink just a little bit further? The haters already hate you and the big, burly men who tear up in your presence will appreciate a personal hygiene product emblazoned with your name and face strategically placed right where a star could grab it.
Now, I know you’ve got a lot on your plate right now, but in between one of your courtroom naps, maybe you could look over the prospectus I’ve prepared. Don’t worry, it’s mostly pictures!
Feel free to respond via The Daily Beast. I promised them a cut of the proceeds, but I’m going to screw them over just like the Master taught me to do. Former President Trump, I think this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship, at least until you inevitably sue me.
And when it comes to the vote Trump would be worse for the Palestinians. That is one of the key points every one of the well meaning student protesters need to fully understand. The protests are legitimate and fine. The vote in Nov. will be legitimate and fine.
All must fully understand and appreciate that the protests and the vote are two independent events.
And that in the end Trump would be far worse for Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza.
Yes, he was right and still is.
That's a situation related to my shadowban.
— Joe F Spaulding 🦉 (@beyond_process) April 24, 2024
Biden Was Right About Both Antisemitism and the Palestinians Sometimes basic humanity means seeing “both sides.”
"Donald Trump has neutered Republicans' power to sabotage Joe Biden
It also doesn't hurt that Democrats in Congress have held unprecedentedly united"
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Yep -- Biden has been bad for Palestinians. Trump would be worse.
[...]
...There is a reason Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu all-but-openly campaigned for Trump against Biden in 2020 .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/29/israeli-zeal-for-second-trump-term-matched-by-palestinian-enmity . American policy in the Trump administration .. https://www.vox.com/trump-administration .. was a laundry list of gifts to the Israeli right:
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=173989843
Inside Israel’s war
"Witnesses of Aid Convoy Violence Describe Shooting, Panic and Desperation"
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You have 5.2 million people or so, that have no civil or political rights in their own land.
How do you not call that apartheid?
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174017328
[...]How Israel Quietly Crushed Early American Jewish Dissent on Palestine
“Our Palestine Question,” an explosive new book by Geoffrey Levin, delves into American Jewish McCarthyism from the 1950s through late 1970s.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=173965072
How an AP photographer made this image of Israeli female soldiers taking a selfie at the Gaza border
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=173962873
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Shimon Peres doubts Israel can win Permanent war or Survive Annexation of West Bank
November, 2015 - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=118223699
Smotrich at Knesset: Ben-Gurion should have ‘finished the job,’ thrown out Arabs
September, 2022 - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=170039047
Netanyahu’s Betrayal of Democracy Is a Betrayal of Israel
January, 2023 - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=170949384
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Ehud Barak says more than two decades ago he was new enough in Israeli politics to tell the truth.
He declared then that if he was a Palestinian, he’d probably be a terrorist.
That comment could have derailed a spectacular military and political career, but the former general chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) went on to become prime minister and defence minister.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174018497
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By Jonathan Chait, who’s been a New York
political columnist since 2011.
In the wake of the most recent spree of antisemitic harassment .. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/columbia-protest-anti-semitism-campus-israel-jewish-students-justice-palestine.html , President Biden made a statement denouncing the harassment of Jews, while gesturing toward sympathy for the plight of Palestinian Arabs: “I condemn the antisemitic protests. That’s why I’ve set up a program to deal with that. I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians.”
Unsurprisingly, this caused an outrage response from the eliminationist left. Somewhat more surprisingly, unless you are familiar with this particular pathology, Biden’s statement also generated outrage on the political right.
“Biden condemns ‘antisemitic protests,’ and ‘those who don’t understand’ Palestinians in echo of Trump ‘both sides’ remark,” blared .. https://nypost.com/2024/04/22/us-news/biden-condemns-antisemitic-protests-those-who-dont-understand-palestinians-in-echo-of-trump-both-sides-remark/ .. the New York Post. The Federalist .. https://thefederalist.com/2024/04/23/joe-biden-says-there-are-very-fine-people-on-both-sides-of-the-oct-7-debate/ .. (“Joe Biden Says There Are Very Fine People On Both Sides Of The Oct. 7 Debate”), The Wall Street Journal’s op-ed .. https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-has-a-very-fine-people-moment-riots-protesters-aa31365e?mod=opinion_lead_pos12 .. page (“Biden Has a ‘Very Fine People’ Moment”), and other .. https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/useless-biden-cant-help-but-botch-his-response-to-campus-antisemitism/ .. conservative media have repeated the theme.
This is a familiar anti-anti-Trump tactic: finding Trump’s most indefensible moments and then attempting to blow up a minor or imagined Biden infraction to an equivalent size to neutralize the issue. In this case, they are pretending Biden’s expression of sympathy for Palestinians is the equivalent of Donald Trump calling the pro-Confederate demonstrators in Charlottesville “very fine people.”
But there was nothing in Biden’s remark that hinted of sympathy for the antisemitic protests he was denouncing. He was remarking that Palestinian people are suffering and deserve sympathy and attention, and not allowing his radical critics to take ownership of that sentiment.
Since both sides has now become an epithet used by, well, both sides, it is worth making a defense of the general construct. The term both sides became sarcastic shorthand for a common practice in the mainstream media of pretending offenses that were solely committed by the Republican Party were being shared by Democrats. You could find this trope in stories about subjects like, say, the debt ceiling, where fake neutrality would cause reporters to pretend both parties were using hostage tactics .. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/05/debt-ceiling-congress-blame-republicans-democrats-default-new-york-times.html .
Yet the general idea of adopting a broad moral framework and balancing competing moral principles remains correct. The error is to misapply it to situations in which all fault is concentrated in a single party. But I do not think that is a useful way to approach all political conflict. And it is an especially poor one for the conflict in the Middle East.
Biden has taken abuse from all directions for attempting to hold multiple values in his head at once. The president has, at various times, expressed the following ideas:
1. Terrorist attacks on civilians are wrong.
2. Israel has a right to self-defense that is bounded by a requirement to minimize civilian casualties.
3. Bigotry against Jews, Muslims, or Arabs is categorically wrong.
Now, one might object that, in praising Biden for these morally intuitive positions, I have set the bar too low. And it is a low bar indeed. But the pertinent thing is that Biden and his allies are the only faction in American politics that has managed to clear this low bar.
The groups leading the left-wing protests against Biden not only refuse to condemn Hamas’s butchery of Israeli civilians .. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/columbia-protest-anti-semitism-campus-israel-jewish-students-justice-palestine.html , they actively glorify it. The Republican Party has overlooked or justified Trump’s naked bigotry against Muslims .. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/03/new-zealand-shooter-trump-racist-muslims.html .. and frequently dismissed the idea that Israel’s counterterrorist attack .. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/10/your-moral-equation-must-have-human-beings-on-both-sides.html .. needs to follow any standard of care for civilian life.
Trump defenders Alan Dershowitz and Andrew Stein, writing .. https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-has-a-very-fine-people-moment-riots-protesters-aa31365e?mod=opinion_lead_pos12 .. in the Journal , blame Biden for the “politicization of a clear moral issue”:
Mr. Biden should unqualifiedly condemn antisemitism and harassment and violence against Jews. Trying to balance that justified condemnation by suggesting a false moral equivalence is wrong and will hurt him politically. Most Americans understand the difference between the murderers and rapists of Hamas and the defenders of Israel, even if they sometimes fault Israeli actions. If Mr. Biden fails to understand that difference — or, worse, understands but deliberately blurs it — voters will see through his politicization of a clear moral issue.
Many of these antisemitic rioters are as anti-American as they are anti-Israel. Their chants include “Death to America,” “Revolution,” and “Genocide Joe.” Some openly support Iran.
The sheer chutzpah of this passage is astonishing. They are blaming the president for slogans being used by anti-Biden protesters. Meanwhile, Trump has been delighting .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/14/genocide-israel-gaza-iran-trump-biden/ .. in chants of “Genocide Joe” at his rallies. Yet Trump’s defenders have somehow transmogrified the blame for an attack line used against Biden, and taken up by Trump, onto Biden himself.
Devising an effective and moral response to a terrorist group that deliberately maximizes civilian casualties is hard. Influencing policy in another country, even one that is subject to your leverage, is even harder. It is fair to fault Biden for having failed to stanch the conflict.
But it’s easy to devise a solution when you’re free to ignore the humanity of one side of the conflict. Biden is struggling to create and carry out a vision because he is trying to do something morally complex. That is a basic standard of decency his critics on the left and right alike have failed to clear.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/biden-statement-condemn-anti-semitism-palestinians-going-on-campus-protests.html#/
After Dobbs, Americans are turning to permanent contraception
More young women are tying their tubes
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2024/04/19/after-dobbs-americans-are-turning-to-permanent-contraception
Apr 19th 2024
Donald Trump has neutered Republicans' power to sabotage Joe Biden
It also doesn't hurt that Democrats in Congress have held unprecedentedly united
By HEATHER DIGBY PARTON
Columnist
PUBLISHED APRIL 24, 2024 9:00AM (EDT)
https://www.salon.com/2024/04/24/donald-has-neutered-republicans-power-to-sabotage-joe-biden/
While most of the country was riveted by recaps of Donald Trump's sordid hush-money trial on Tuesday, something amazing was happening in Washington: the Senate debated and then passed the national security package that's been consuming the Capitol for the last six months. With a lopsided vote of 79-18, the bills with aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan among some other things will soon be signed by the president and behind us. Notably, there is no increased funding for the border because Donald Trump ordered the Republicans to reject it so that he could keep demagoguing the issue during the campaign. Nevertheless, Tuesday's vote is a big win for President Joe Biden and the Democrats.
The GOP infighting has escalated in the wake of the House's months-long tantrum led by the far-right extremists who seemed to truly believe that they could hold their breath until they turned blue and they would eventually get everything they wanted.
Leading MAGA rebel Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., left town without calling for Speaker Mike Johnson to vacate the chair, demanding instead that he resign, which isn't going to happen. Podcaster Steve Bannon and a couple of fellow right-wing sad sacks — Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Paul Gosar, R-Az. — joined the call but it's clear that however frustrated some of them might be there is no appetite in the House GOP for any more internecine fights, at least for the moment. And the rest of the party is obviously sick of the kooks.
GOP Sen. Tom Tillis of North Carolina pulled no punches, talking about Greene's malign influence, calling her "uninformed" and "a terrible leader" and complaining that she's "dragging our brand down."
Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas probably speaks for many in his party who are too cowardly to say it as plainly as he did when he called the wild extremists in the GOP "scumbags."
GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw: Some Republicans "want Russia to win so badly" they may oust Speaker Johnson
They all might want to take a look at the big orange guy who's actually pulling the strings but he's even turning his back on Greene and continuing to support Johnson, recently telling a radio host:
Look, we have a majority of one, OK? It's not like he can go and do whatever he wants to do. I think he's a very good person. You know, he stood very strongly with me on NATO.
It was a bit low energy but it's pretty clear that Trump not going to back any play to oust Speaker Johnson so Greene is sidelined, at least for now.
There's no doubt that it took a very steady hand in the White House to stay the course and keep working the legislative levers to get the job done.
It's been a bad run for Trump and for Greene these past few weeks. But you know who's having a great run? President Joe Biden. His poll numbers are edging up but the general election still looks incomprehensibly tight considering how much policy success the president has had with a Congress that is so dysfunctional. Somehow he and the Democrats have made it work for them.
I think we're all familiar with Biden's big legislative wins in the first two years: the American Rescue Plan, which set the table for a very positive economic recovery, a big infrastructure bill that is just now coming online all over the country, the first major gun safety bill in decades, capping prescription drug costs for seniors and much more. And it was all done with razor-thin majorities in both chambers.
Most pieces of legislation passed with bipartisan votes despite what is arguably the most toxic political environment since the 1850s. It was a remarkable feat but I think most observers assumed that it was going to be the end of it when Republicans managed to eke out a tiny victory and flip control of the House in 2022. How could anything get done with Donald Trump pulling the strings and crazed right-wing extremists dominating the caucus?
House Republicans had their fun with the Hunter Biden farce and the various "investigations" into the so-called Biden Crime family which have gone nowhere. And immigration has been a genuinely vexing problem that the GOP has exploited as they always do. But as it turns out, while the House Republicans ran around in circles causing chaos on a weekly basis, the important sausage kept getting made. And despite all the drama, the Biden White House ended up getting most of what it wanted without having to give up much of anything in return, at least in part because the Republicans wouldn't take yes for an answer when concessions were offered.
The biggest achievement was avoiding a costly debt limit/government shutdown and I wouldn't have bet that would happen. But former speaker Kevin McCarthy and the White House negotiated a spending deal that served as the excuse to take down McCarthy. (As it turns out it was really about McCarthy refusing to stop an ethics investigation into Florida gadfly Matt Gaetz, but that's another story.) McCarthy's successor Mike Johnson kept the spending agreement in place and fought off another attempt to shut down the government. Just this past month, House Republicans passed the FISA extension backed by the White House and now the big national security package: the ugliest sausage-making extravaganza ever.
It's been such pandemonium that it was hard to see exactly what was happening but now that the smoke is clearing it's obvious that the writing was on the wall when McCarthy gave so many concessions to the crazies during that bizarre speakers' race at the beginning of the term. Handing the keys to that faction was a major mistake because those people are maximalists for whom politics is all or nothing and they can't accept that having a tiny majority in one house of Congress makes that impossible.
In the end, it took the House Democrats being unprecedentedly united, despite some very real tensions within their own coalition, and a willingness for some moderate Republicans to finally stand their ground despite dilly-dallying around for months. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., kept his majority together without the centrist divas causing any trouble for once.
Not only that, Senate Republicans who haven't completely gone insane refused to follow the House model and came through on the important issues as well. But there's no doubt that it took a very steady hand in the White House to stay the course and keep working the legislative levers to get the job done. It wasn't pretty but under the circumstances, the achievements are very big wins at little cost. Meanwhile, the Republicans are reeling with internal strife while their leader sits fuming in a courtroom daily.
https://twitter.com/beyond_process/status/1783149827791942106
Joe F Spaulding 🦉
@beyond_process
🚨🚨BREAKING🚨🚨
Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, former state house speaker Tom Leonard and his wife Jenell, GOP consultant Stu Sandler, and former MIGOP chair Laura Cox are named as "unindicted co-conspirators" by an investigator in the Michigan fake electors scandal!
https://twitter.com/beyond_process/status/1783171100920180932
Joe F Spaulding 🦉
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His links don't show up as the full tweets, just as a link. Same process, posted link as usual with another example, and it shows up as the full tweet. At least that what it is in the preview, see after I post it. I suppose this would be part of Musk's "free speech" algorithms freely blocking other people's freedom. Copied actual text posted below of Spaulding's posts.
A top Republican admits what we have known all along—there was a bipartisan border bill on the table that the GOP walked away from because Donald Trump opposed it. pic.twitter.com/KVYAv9WUYo
— House Judiciary Dems (@HouseJudiciary) April 24, 2024
Donald Trump Suffers Huge Vote Against Him in Pennsylvania Primary
Source: Newsweek
Donald Trump suffered a blow in the Pennsylvania primary on Tuesday, as tens of thousands of Republicans refused to vote for him despite being the presumptive GOP nominee.
The former president won the primary race in the key swing state with 83.5 percent of the vote, amounting to more than 786,000 votes.
However, Nikki Haley, who ended her campaign for the White House after Super Tuesday in March, still received 16.5 percent of the vote, equating to more than 155,000 ballots.
Trump has dominated the Republican primary, and won enough delegates to clinch the Republican presidential nomination in March after victories in Georgia, Mississippi and Washington state. However, there have been signs that Trump is still struggling to garner support from more moderate and independent voters who could be key in the general election against President Joe Biden, especially in the swing state of Pennsylvania.
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-pennsylvania-primary-presidential-election-huge-vote-against-him-1893520
The media keeps wanting Democrats to be demoralized and keep hand-wringing and "worrying" about an "uncommitted" protest vote while they CONTINUE to IGNORE the "Haley Factor", which is a protest vote that is STILL happening against 45, and that in some cases, almost doubles the Biden protest vote.
From the OP excerpt regarding yesterday's PA Primary -
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143230348
Marjorie Taylor Greene Finds Herself Increasingly Isolated Within Congress
Published Apr 24, 2024 at 10:14 AM EDT Updated Apr 24, 2024 at 11:57 AM EDT
https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-finds-herself-increasingly-isolated-within-congress-1893695
Senator Thom Tillis on Marjorie Taylor Greene: I think she’s uninformed, she is a total waste of time. She is a horrible leader. She is dragging our brand down… pic.twitter.com/CoUAoWO5gK
— Acyn (@Acyn) April 23, 2024
Powerful stuff for the eyes of the Jury people
Trial exhibits:
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) April 24, 2024
Some of the National Enquirer headlines that ex-AMI chief David Pecker testified were part of the behind-the-scenes scheme to prop up Trump and discredit his political rivals have been released by the court.
They were entered into evidence on Tuesday. pic.twitter.com/DvG8jwqQeX
SCOOP: Looks like Trump has been using a GOP compliance firm as a go-between to pay lawyers, allowing him to keep some of the attorneys he’s paying hidden from the public. It’s an $8 million mystery—and experts say it’s probably illegal. Me @thedailybeast https://t.co/gF9dk7nUOs
— Roger Sollenberger (@SollenbergerRC) April 24, 2024
Well, there is a reason for this.
GymJordan was a bit busy going to college gym locker rooms and watch coaches molest boys. Too much to do and so little time to do it.
busy dude
Ex-Trump Attorney Tells CNN New Trump Rant To Local News ‘A Direct Violation’ Of Gag Order
https://www.mediaite.com/news/ex-trump-attorney-tells-cnn-new-trump-rant-to-local-news-a-direct-violation-of-gag-order/
Wasn't it just last week that Comer told Raskin to "just wait" because the evidence required to impeach was coming? Even Jordan was smart enough to slither back into his hole, but Comer was still at it.
If the people of Kentucky elect that piece of garbage to be their Governor then the characterization of Kentuckians as ignorant rubes will be confirmed. My hope is they are smarter than that.
The bigger risk may be when the MAGAts start looking for a replacement charlatan to take the place of the orange shitgibbon once he croaks. Comer probably has what it takes to win over that crowd.
Capitulating Comer having a sad, looking forward to the next corrupt conspiracy project.
How the House GOP’s Biden impeachment effort fell apart
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/24/politics/house-gop-biden-impeachment-effort/index.html
By Annie Grayer and Melanie Zanona, CNN
10 minute read
Updated 10:42 AM EDT, Wed April 24, 2024
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer was eager to take the reins of a high-stakes investigation into President Joe Biden and his family, seen as central to the House Republican agenda – a coveted perch that brought the added benefit of elevating his national profile.
But after 15 months of coming up short in proving some of his biggest claims against the president, Comer recently approached one of his Republican colleagues and made a blunt admission: He was ready to be “done with” the impeachment inquiry into Biden, according to the lawmaker who relayed the conversation to CNN.
Comer has grown increasingly frustrated as his investigation appears to be at a dead end, with Republicans resigned to the reality that they don’t have the votes to impeach the president, multiple sources with direct knowledge of the situation told CNN.
Sources say the Kentucky Republican is now focused on tactfully wrapping up his work – all while Comer, a five-term congressman, has another matter on his mind: ambitions to run for higher office one day, including potentially running for governor, according to lawmakers who have spoken to him.
“Comer is hoping Jesus comes so he can get out,” one of the GOP lawmakers who spoke to Comer told CNN. “He is fed up.”.......................
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That's also true.
And just think how many of them died from covid.
I'd add that there're fewer registered Republicans now than there were in the run up to the 2020 elections, so that would also skew the results.
Roseanne Barr is trending because she made a haha post (and then deleted it) that Biden raped her in Bergdorf Goodman. Poor Roseanne isn't aging well.
Roseanne Barr needs medical help. https://t.co/ABb9YvnCfq
— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) April 23, 2024
I don't know. I can't find polls on MAGA beliefs between 2020 and 2024.
I don't really think so. Trump immediately said the election was "stollen" from him, and naturally the people who'd voted for him bought into that.
Well, they got that wrong but are the stats correct?
Six years ago, 1/4 of Trump voters believed the 2020 election was stolen. The number today is 70%.
Huh? The 2020 election took place three and a half years ago.
That's a relief...
Süddeutsche Zeitung on the American press
An article in the April 4 Süddeutsche Zeitung (byline Michaela Haas) talks about how the American press has reported on Donald Trump. It is truly damning. Here are a few choice excerpts.
When Trump said he would pull out of NATO if elected president, US TV News broadcasts spent less than 6 minutes on the story. In the same period, they spent over 21 minutes on Biden's advanced age.
In 2016, more broadcast time was spent on Hillary's sloppy e-mail management than on all of Trump's scandals together.
When Trump said he would use the military to stifle political opposition, the Associated Press reported "Trump intends a wider role for the military".
The US population largely believes the Trump propaganda that the economy in in the dumps due to Biden, whereas the truth is historically low unemployment and strong GDP growth.
Local radio broadcasters constantly report on a crime wave caused by immigration, whereas the truth is that US-born citizens have double the crime statistics of undocumented immigrants.
Six years ago, 1/4 of Trump voters believed the 2020 election was stolen. The number today is 70%.
3/4 of all voters today do not know that Trump called his political opponents "vermin" and promised mass deportations on the first day of his presidency.
Online news is driven by algorithms to maximize click-bait. People do not know what to believe, and have become cynical and apathetic. The most important duty of the press, to inform people, has been lost.
It seems that if one wants to know the facts about Trump, it is better to read the foreign press.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/4/23/2236782/-S-ddeutsche-Zeitung-on-the-American-press?pm_campaign=trending&pm_source=sidebar&pm_medium=web
US Senate passes $95bn aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan
The Senate, in a bipartisan super-majority, overwhelmingly voted to advance the measure, which Joe Biden is expected to sign
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/23/senate-aid-bill-ukraine-israel-taiwan
The US Senate voted resoundingly on Tuesday to approve $95bn in wartime aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, as a bipartisan super-majority united to send the long-stalled package to Joe Biden’s desk for signature. The final vote was 79 to 18.
The bill easily cleared a key procedural hurdle earlier in the day. The Senate overwhelmingly voted to advance the measure in a step hailed by the Senate majority leader as “one of the greatest achievements the Senate has faced in years”.
“Today the Senate sends a unified message to the entire world: America will always defend democracy in its hour of need,” said Chuck Schumer in a floor speech on Tuesday afternoon.
“Make no mistake, America will deliver on its promise to act like a leader on the world stage, to hold the line against autocratic thugs like Vladimir Putin,” he continued. “We are showing Putin that betting against America is always, always a grave mistake.”...........................
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BREAKING: The FTC just banned non-compete agreements.
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) April 23, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission has issued a final rule making it illegal for bosses to make workers sign noncompetes in any scenario, and voiding nearly all existing noncompetes.
This is a game changer for American workers. pic.twitter.com/9n1tJWpQl4
GREAT!! That should utterly doom her Senate run.
Wow, maybe there is hope. Of course, he's probably just preaching to the choir, don't see any red hats around. Still may reach a few people.
This evangelical is over Trump. 👇
— Rachel Bitecofer 🗽💡🔭🦆 (@RachelBitecofer) April 23, 2024
Calls his Bible disgusting.
pic.twitter.com/2d8rgC8iwN
Considering court adjourned at 1:00pm the past 2 days, he had plenty of time to go play in the sunshine.
Does he even go to the play golf in the mornings? i thought he sat around and watched Fox News then.
Mfer flipping on abortion ruling again
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/kari-lake-says-unfortunately-arizona-isnt-enforcing-1864-abortion-ban-rcna148948
The Absolute Looniest Trump Trial Takes on Fox News So Far
‘HE NEEDS SUNLIGHT’
Just two days into this historic trial, Fox News has managed to compare Trump both to a civil rights era freedom fighter and a *Roman emperor being assassinated.
*Maximus Stupiditus?
Justin Baragona
Senior Media Reporter
Updated Apr. 23, 2024 4:58PM EDT Published Apr. 23, 2024 3:06PM EDT
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Getty
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-absolute-looniest-trump-trial-takes-on-fox-news-so-far?utm_source=web_push
After a nearly weeklong jury selection process, the criminal hush-money trial of former President Donald Trump kicked off Monday with opening statements and the prosecution’s first witness—former National Enquirer chief David Pecker.
Monday’s proceedings produced several headlines, such as Pecker discussing his habit of “checkbook journalism” that resulted in him helping arrange a $130,000 payment in 2016 to adult film star Stormy Daniels to kill a story about her alleged one-night stand with Trump.
Over on Fox News, however, much of its trial coverage instead revolved around parroting the ex-president’s grievances about the case and how it is akin to “election interference” since he’s required to appear in court.
While the rest of the cable news landscape has devoted round-the-clock coverage to the trial, the conservative cable giant has mostly dipped in and out. Spending the bulk of its time on the pro-Palestinian protests at Ivy League schools, Fox News has centered a large portion of its Trump trial coverage on criticizing the case and the court’s treatment of the former president.
This has resulted in the right-wing network’s pro-Trump personalities and guests taking increasingly goofy and zany positions to defend the twice-impeached ex-president. For instance, amid reports that Trump has repeatedly dozed off in the courtroom, several Fox Newsers have applauded him for this—even as they simultaneously mock President Joe Biden as “Sleepy Joe.”
But praising the MAGA king for catching some shuteye during his criminal trial isn’t even among the looniest reactions that have made its way to the network’s airwaves this week. Instead, we’ve had a former Speaker of the House compare Trump’s plight to slain Civil Rights-era freedom fighters, a primetime host insist the ex-president is being treated worse than terrorists in Guantanamo Bay, and a morning anchor bring up middle-school indiscretions for some reason.
Let’s take a look at the goofiest takes aired by Fox News:
IT’S “CRUEL” TO KEEP TRUMP OFF THE GOLF COURSE
Primetime host Jesse Watters, a former Bill O’Reilly lackey whose stock in trade is delighting Fox News grandpas with his performatively outrageous antics, was beside himself on Monday that golf-loving ex-president was stuck in the courtroom and not getting enough time on the links.
“The guy needs exercise. He’s usually golfing. And so, you’re going to put a man who’s almost 80, sitting in a room like this on his butt for all that time? It's not healthy,” Watters exclaimed on Monday’s broadcast of The Five. “You know how big of a health nut I am. He needs sunlight and he needs activity. He needs to be walking around, he needs action. It’s really cruel and unusual punishment to make a man do that. And any time he moves, they threaten to throw him in prison!”
Hours later on his solo primetime show, Watters doubled down.
“Trump has been on the move his whole life,” he fumed. “Golf, rallies, movement, action, sunlight, fresh air, freedom. This isn’t lawfare. This is torture. They’re making a 77-year-old man sit in a room for eight hours straight, four days a week.”
GITMO PRISONERS HAVE IT BETTER THAN TRUMP!
Watters’ MAGA propaganda didn’t just stop with demanding that Trump get more rounds of golf. He also asserted that detainees in the infamous Guantanamo Bay prison receive more preferential treatment than the ex-president has been afforded throughout his trial. This included Watters namechecking a notorious al-Qaeda terrorist who has been called the “principal architect of the 9/11 attacks.”
“He has to sit there all week for six weeks. If he says anything, they’ll throw him in jail. If he leaves, they throw him in jail. That’s crazy,” he grumbled on The Five. “They had more allowances for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. I think they bought a million-dollar soccer field for the people in Gitmo. I don’t know if [Mohammed] was able to visit his son for his high school graduation, but it’s similar.”
Despite this claim being repeated ad nauseam on Fox, Judge Juan Merchan has not actually ruled yet that the former president cannot attend his son Barron’s high school graduation.
IT’S JUST LIKE THE END OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC!
During Tuesday’s broadcast of midday roundtable show Outnumbered, Ian Prior—a GOP operative and regular Fox News guest who the network once tried to pass off as just a “concerned parent”—warned that the hush-money trial could result in the end of America.
Reacting to the possibility that Trump could be held in contempt for repeatedly violating the judge’s gag order, Prior likened the ex-president being restricted from attacking trial witnesses and court staff to the fall of Rome.
“The very problem that we have here is we are weaponizing the justice system to go after former presidents. You back up 2,000 years and this is the kind of thing they would do in the Roman Republic that led to the end of the Roman Republic,” he dramatically proclaimed. “Caesar is out there and says if you do not come back to Rome… and face prosecution, what did he do? He crossed the Rubicon and there’s the end of the Republic.”
MIDDLE SCHOOLERS SHOULD BE SCARED!
Just ahead of opening statements on Monday, pro-Trump Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt said that the ex-president facing criminal charges for paying off a porn star to help his election chances could result in—actually, we’re not really sure what she was trying to say.
We’re just going to report and let you decide.
“Does this set a precedent for other people who want to run for president?” Earhardt sighed. “What if they've done something like this in the past and they can say, 'Oh, well, they told me in the 8th grade they want to run for president, so since they paid off a girl when they were 30 years old, then that was election interference!'”
“LITERALLY LIKE” CIVIL RIGHTS WORKERS IN THE ’60S
The award for zaniest take, however, goes to former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who claimed that the possibility of serving jail time made Trump akin to slain freedom fighters during the civil rights movement or Marlon Brando’s character in a 1950s classic film.
“I am deeply worried that tomorrow, a totally corrupt judge and a totally corrupt district attorney are going to try to put a former president of the United States, candidate of his party, and front-runner in the polls in jail. Now, I think this is so horrendous that there has to be some way to reach out to the Supreme Court,” the Fox News pundit said on Monday night’s Hannity. “This is literally like some of the civil rights workers in Mississippi in the 1960s. The New York system is now so deeply corrupted and it's so bitterly, deeply anti-Trump.”
Raging about the Biden family’s business dealings and Judge Merchan’s daughter, Gingrich then analogized the trial to an Oscar-winning movie about corrupt unions—while getting the director wrong.
“I mean the whole thing frankly resembles On the Waterfront, Stanley Kubrick's brilliant film. This is about corruption. It has nothing to do with honesty, and what worries me is it's a genuine threat to Donald Trump,” Gingrich huffed. “I mean, I think any step that would put him close to a New York prison is an extraordinarily dangerous step and I would hope that there's some legal way to block it and make sure that it never happens, because the thugs he's dealing with are totally out of control, have total contempt for the rule of law, and frankly are unworthy of being in the offices they hold.”
MY DAD IS LOVED BY “HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS”
Appearing on Trump confidant Sean Hannity’s primetime show on Monday, the ex-president’s son Eric Trump bemoaned that his dad was facing 34 criminal charges over allegedly falsifying business records to cover up the hush-money payment made to Daniels before the 2016 election.
According to the younger Trump, however, his father was too busy running the country to keep track of these records, though he added “not that anything was done wrong in the bookkeeping.” Of course, Trump wasn’t actually president when he allegedly arranged to pay Daniels off to keep her quiet in an effort to keep the story from impacting an upcoming election.
Eric Trump also complained to Hannity that it seemed unfair that his dad was facing criminal charges over such a relatively small amount of money since the vast majority of the American public supposedly loves him. “They’re going after the former president of the United States, a person beloved by hundreds of millions of people in this country, over $130,000,” he groused.
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